Taking Your Hatchery To The Next Level

Tabletop egg incubators certainly do serve a purpose if you are not planning on working with more than just a few chicks at one time. Teachers, hobbyists, small-time hatcheries--these will get great use out of a smaller incubator. In fact, anything larger would probably just be overkill. If, however, you’re considering starting a small hatchery business, it won’t be long before you work yourself and your company right out of the tabletop incubator into one of the cabinet incubators. In fact, if you’re serious at all about making a business work, then you probably want to go ahead and take that step so that you can be ahead of the game.

The beauty about some of the cabinet-style incubators is that you can keep a cycle of hatching going throughout the year. Several incubators have a hatching section that will allow you to move eggs from one place to another during the process, which means that you can keep the cabinet incubator full of eggs that are ready to hatch at all times. There will be no reason or need to wait in between hatchings or incubation periods, and that will help you keep your new hatchery business rolling along.

There are quite a few different models of cabinet incubators to choose from, and some of them hold more eggs than others. You should carefully consider the size of hatchery you are trying to build before you make a purchase, because it’s quite easy to get carried away and just grab the biggest and best one. To enjoy success, you want to get a cabinet incubator that allows you to maintain a particular number of hatchings each cycle, or you might otherwise get overwhelmed. Perhaps even more importantly, you want to ensure that you don’t hatch so many chicks that you don’t have the resources to care for all of them.

Don’t be afraid to start small, because there is always room to grow. If, after a year or two, you find that your cabinet incubator just isn’t large enough anymore, you can go back to those larger and fancier incubators and hatchers that you really had your eye on the first time. Growing gradually really is the key to success with a small hatchery business, and cabinet incubators are a great way to manage the growth process. Check out the GQF 1502 for an excellent idea of what a small hatchery cabinet incubator looks like.

By: Will Hanekom

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